How to make delicious and healthy chicken soup in no time.
Homemade chicken soup is a healthy and nutritious dinner loaded with vitamins, minerals, healthy carbs and complete proteins. Made from scratch using homemade chicken broth. Don't forget to pin it!
Servings: 4 serves
Ingredients
- 4-6 cups chicken broth
- 4 medium-size potatoes
- 1 tin organic chickpeas only use BPA free
- 1 medium-size onion any onion is fine
- 2-3 tbsp extra virgin olive oil
- 1/2 tsp ground cumin
- 3 medium-size tomatoes or use 1/2 tin of tinned diced tomatoes if in the hurry
Instructions
- Put your chicken broth into a medium-size saucepan and turn on the stovetop.
- Peel and slice potatoes into thin half-moons, add them to the broth.
- Open and rinse the chickpeas and add them to the soup as well.
- Bring the soup to a gentle simmer.
- Meanwhile, peel tomatoes and dice them. (See notes if you need a tip on how to quickly peel tomatoes.)
- Peel and finely dice the onion. Add olive oil into a small frying pan and gently fry the onions, until soft. Approximately 4-5 minutes. Stir frequently you don't want the onion to caramelise, they only have to soften.
- Add ground cumin and fry for another minute.
- Add tomatoes and onions to the soup. Add a couple of spoons of broth to the frying pan and mix to get all the flavour from the onions. Add to the soup.
- Simmer the soup for another couple of minutes. Check that potatoes are cooked and enjoy!
Notes
How to peel tomatoes in no time:
- Boil some water in a medium-size saucepan, take the saucepan from the stove.
- Put tomatoes into the water and let them sit there for a couple of minutes.
- Very carefully take them out and peel the tomatoes using a knife. The skin should come off very easily.
- Done!
